First Sight
First Sight
New York. London. Milan. Paris. Fashion Week in all four cities. A month of endless interviews, parties, and unflagging work and attention to detail at the semiannual ready to wear fashion shows—the famous pret-a-porter. At the center of the storm and avalanche of work is American Timmie O’Neill, whose renowned line, Timmie O, is the embodiment of casual chic, in fashion and for the home. She has created a business that inspires, fills, and consumes her life. With an unerring instinct for what the next trend will be, an innate genius for business, tireless labor, and sheer fearlessness, starting from nothing, over two decades Timmie has built an international empire that has brought her enormous satisfaction and success. In a world where humility and compassion are all too rare, her humor, kindness, integrity, and creativity are inspirational. Yet as blessed as she feels by her success, Timmie harbors the private wounds of a devastating childhood and past tragedy. She is too smart, too experienced, and too hurt to want much in her personal life beyond a succession of convenient, very limited relationships. Always willing to take risks in business, she never risks her heart.
But despite her well-ordered and highly controlled world, it turns out that Timmie O’Neill is not immune to magic when it strikes. And it strikes in Paris during Paris Fashion Week, when an intriguing Frenchman comes into her life when she gets sick. At first, Timmie and Jean-Charles Vernier are only patient and physician. They become confidants and friends, corresponding at a safe distance between Paris and Los Angeles once she goes home. There is every reason why they must remain apart. But neither can deny their growing friendship and the electricity that sparks whenever they meet.
紐約、倫敦、米蘭、巴黎,四個城市的時裝週各自閃耀時尚光芒。這場每半年一次的盛會長達一個月,其中有無數的採訪、派對,以及即將登臺展現的服裝背後所付出的無盡辛勞、心力。知名個人品牌婷蜜‧歐的美籍設計師婷蜜‧歐尼爾正位於此時尚風暴核心中。她的設計完美體現時尚休閒的精髓,作品兼具時尚及居家風格。她所開創的公司不僅帶來啟發,更豐富、填滿了她的生活。她對流行趨勢的直覺判斷、敏銳的商業才能、刻苦耐勞和大膽無畏的精神讓婷妮在二十年的打拼奮鬥中,從無到有,打造了一個跨國的企業帝國,為她帶來了無比的滿足和成就感 。在謙遜、同情心近乎絕跡的時尚圈裡,婷蜜的幽默、良善、正直、想像力格外激勵人心。然而雖然婷蜜事業成功、生活充裕,悲慘的童年和過往生活卻留下了創傷。聰穎非凡、看盡塵世、受創太深的婷蜜,伴侶更替頻繁,情感發展有限,不願在情感上太過依賴。在事業上總是大膽冒險的婷蜜,遇到感情卻退縮不前。
儘管婷蜜嚴謹、自律,她在愛情方面並非具有免疫力。婷蜜的愛情在巴黎時裝週期間開始萌芽。婷蜜生病時在巴黎遇到了一位深情浪漫的法國男子。起初,他們只是醫患關係;之後他們成為好友、知己。回到美國後,分別在巴黎、洛杉磯的兩人,以這安全距離相互保持聯絡。 有許多原因讓他們必須保持分隔兩地。然而這既無法阻止彼此感情的增長,也無法否認彼此見面時的感覺。